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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Diesel Jeep, was: Re: Photographing Police Officers - Clarification from No10
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:22:40 +0100
That is the normal way of things.  A torque converter can absorb more  
torque, as I understand it, to cushion the rest of the transmission.   
My ML270 would have had less torque if it had had a manual gearbox;  
that's the way Mercedes would have tuned the engine, for that very  
reason.

Chris

On 4 Oct 2009, at 11:26, Carlos J. Santisteban wrote:

>> Why did it work on Euro version but not the USA version?  Automatic
>
>> transmissions.  Here in the USA you can't buy a Jeep with a manual
>
>> transmission and the automatics couldn't handle the torque.
>
>
> Funny... wasn't the opposite way? I always thought that it's way  
> easier to
> make an automatic transmission able to handle much torque -- or at  
> least,
> that's what Mercedes always said.

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